Traumatic stress in Palestinian children and young people in the Gaza Strip
Rasanat Fatima Nawaz and Hayley Gains summarise a scoping review exploring the impact of war on Palestinian children and young people residing in the Gaza Strip.
[read the full story...]How do friendships influence adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviours?
In her debut blog, Bella Brereton writes with Rasanat Fatima Nawaz to summarise a systematic review that explored the associations between self-injurious thoughts and behaviours and school-based friendship networks in adolescents, using sociometric data.
[read the full story...]Suicide and self-harm in children: prevalence rates cause for concern
In Mahmoud Arif’s debut blog, he and Rasanat Fatima Nawaz summarise a meta-analysis published in The Lancet Psychiatry, which estimated the prevalence rates of self-harm behaviours and suicidal ideation in children aged 12 years and under.
[read the full story...]School-based mental health interventions: reducing depression, anxiety and aggressive behaviour
In their debut blog, Rasanat Fatima Nawaz and Lauren Cross summarise a comprehensive review from the Early Intervention Foundation on school-based mental health interventions.
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